Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
CHINUA ACHEBEAmong the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
CHINUA ACHEBEIf you don’t like someone’s story, write your own. If you don’t like what somebody says, say what it is you don’t like.
CHINUA ACHEBEA debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
CHINUA ACHEBEI think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
CHINUA ACHEBENo man however great is greater than his people.
CHINUA ACHEBEA functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
CHINUA ACHEBEOnly the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum… The story is our escort. Without it we are blind… It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
CHINUA ACHEBEA disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
CHINUA ACHEBEMy weapon is literature.
CHINUA ACHEBEPeople create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
CHINUA ACHEBEThere is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
CHINUA ACHEBEWisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
CHINUA ACHEBEAn artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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